Co Scientist Academic Writing

Academic Writing

Research paper drafting, journal formatting, and citation management.

Use This Skill When

• Drafting a new research paper from analysis results.
• Structuring a manuscript in IMRaD format.
• Formatting for a specific journal (Nature, Science, ACS, IEEE, Elsevier).
• Writing or optimizing an abstract.
• Managing citations and references.

Workflow

1. Determine target journal and format:

   • Identify journal guidelines (word limit, section structure, figure limits)
   • Select appropriate template

2. Draft sections in order:

   • Methods (most objective, draft first)
   • Results (present findings with figure references)
   • Introduction (frame the research question and significance)
   • Discussion (interpret results, limitations, future work)
   • Abstract (summarize after all sections complete)
   • Title (optimize for discoverability)

3. Citation integration:

   • Insert in-text citations in required format
   • Generate reference list
   • Verify all citations are referenced and vice versa

4. Quality review:

   • Check logical flow across sections
   • Verify figures and tables are referenced
   • Ensure claims are supported by results

Deliverables

• report.md: writing progress summary.
• results/manuscript.md: complete manuscript draft.
• results/abstract.md: optimized abstract.
• results/references.md: formatted reference list.

Available Tools (MCP)

External tools available via ToolUniverse MCP server. Falls back to Python requests + public REST APIs when MCP is unavailable.

• Reuse assets/imrad-template.md when writing IMRaD-format papers.

Quality Gates

• Manuscript follows target journal's structure and guidelines.
• All claims in Discussion are supported by Results.
• Every figure and table is referenced in text.
• Abstract contains objective, methods, key results, and conclusion.
• Word count is within journal limits.

If any gate fails: identify the specific failing check, fix the issue, and re-validate before proceeding.

Gotchas

• Methods セクションを最初に書くこと。最も客観的で、他セクションの基盤になる
• Discussion で Results に記載されていないデータを引用してはならない
• Abstract は全セクション完成後に書くこと。先に書くと内容との乖離が生じる
• 引用は「著者名+年」形式と「番号」形式でジャーナルごとに異なる。投稿先を確認してから書式を決定
• 図表の説明文（caption）は図を見ただけで内容が分かる自己完結型にすること

Validation Loop

1. 原稿を生成
2. チェック:
   • ターゲットジャーナルの構造に合致しているか
   • Discussion の主張が全て Results に根拠があるか
   • 全図表がテキスト中で参照されているか
   • 語数がジャーナル制限以内か
3. 不合格なら該当セクションを修正
4. 合格後のみ投稿準備完了